How long something can stay random, when we are always looking for patterns in things. Does it helps simplifying world around. Probably yes. Just now, in the week2 assignment what started as random colliding circles, if I grey them out, I just see two giant Xes. Also when we manipulate randomness is it still random, what the speaker called “Controlled randomness”. But what would be something truly random. A roll of a die, but it’s bound by 6 choices. That also is a form of controlled randomness. Given this all physical systems are bound by laws of physics. That make all random events not so random. If by random, we mean lack of knowledge about the outcome by that I mean the choice of the outcome not the outcome itself, then to increase randomness is to increase the available for the system to choose from.
For an artwork, My balancing point of chaos and control will the total number choice available at a moment. I see one element with 100 choices and 10 elements with 10 choice the same way. Surely, I can play around with by introducing biases and triggers to manipulate the balancing point, this will come at a cost of increasing complexity. And I need to look out for the chaos coming from this complexity. There is beauty in order and chaos both. But ordered beauty and chaotic beauty carry representation of complete opposite worlds which in its own is a spectrum and in that who lies where become their balancing point.